Friday, August 15, 2025
Do we need another jukebox musical? In the case of "Rolling Thunder: A Rock Journey," the answer is a wavering yes. Written with more insight than usual by Bryce Hallett, with musical direct…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
What has happened to Pilobolus? Two programs, A and B, under the umbrella title "Other Worlds Collection," made up the repertory during this visit to NYC. If Program A at The Joyce Theater i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Each dancer contributes a unique personality and approach to the parade of styles, but when they all perform together it is as if they had been together forever. Each has a solo and a ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Hassan has managed to raise the strident, repetitive street rhythms and language of rap into an art form that gets to the heart of what ails these three colorful figures. To be frank, the la…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
The twisty, but clichéd, choreography was not without its clever and eye-catching moments, but try as he might RamÃrez Sansano never fully defined the characters, hindered by the equally…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
Six quite diverse works made up the program, four by Parsons and two by guest artists (Robert Battle and Rita Butler) who pushed the dancers to their limits. The guest choreographers worked …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2025
Groff is simply sensational in both his roles, charming as himself and astonishing in his revelatory Darin. He confesses to being "a wet man." He proves it with his near aerobically …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2025
Wesley Wray (center at microphone) and the company of the Broadway musical "Buena Vista Social Club" at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) The off-Broadway to Broad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Andrea Rosa Guzman, Christopher Jordan and Kate Baldwin in the opening scene from the New York City Center Encores! production of "Love Life" (Photo credit: Joan Marcu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Andrew Scott in the one-man show "Vanya" after Anton Chekhov at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) A playful thought came to mind watching Andrew Scott (Sherlock on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2025
Even though the director, Rebecca Frecknall, honors most of the play's dialogue, Blanche's heartbreaking confession scene with Mitch (Dwane Walcott), her suitor, revealing the sad roots of h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
So much of "Talking with Angels" is taken up by the rantings of these otherworldly emenations, which are filled increasingly by cryptic, impenetrable spoutings referencing religious imagery,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
"Tango After Dark" came across as more of a slick cabaret act, albeit one that was performed and staged with professional polish. The dramatically focused lighting by original designer C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2025
Elliott has directed too realistically, turning "Curse" into a sad melodrama, minus the magic. Maybe Shepard's odd take on rural goings-on had more of a shocking appeal to sophisticated …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2025
Featuring ballet great and former American Ballet Theatre star, Herman Cornejo in the leading role, "Anima Animal" was choreographed by Anabella Tuliano on Cornejo's ballet concert group fro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
"Lynchtown" (1936), probably Weidman's best known work, is an indictment of lawlessness and group anarchy. It is one section of a three-part work called "Atavisms." Members of the Sokolow Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Bitch turns herself inside out in ways sometimes difficult to bear, particularly with her frank, anatomical language, but she communicates her joy and anguish so honestly and unflinchingly t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
"What an awful name for a musical," spouts Little Sally (a brilliantly talented Pearl Scarlett Gold) as one of the narrators of the New York City Center Encores' witty production of the 2001…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
This may not have been a typical program for the Malpaso Dance Company, but the troupe seems to lean towards the darker parts of life. As moving as each of the works are, they all painte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2025
The best constructed work was the finale, "Grace" (1999), in which Brown created a Goddess figure come down from Heaven "to spread grace among humans."Â In addition to a score by Duke Ell…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
The troupe, led by a mother and two daughters"Aparna Ramaswamy, Ranee Ramaswamy (mother) and Ashwini Ramaswamy"presented "Children of Dharma," based on elements of the famous Hindu epic "The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2024
Jenny Lyn Bader's "Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library" has moved from a successful run at the 59E59 Theater to the intimate WP Theater on the Upper West Side. This is fortunate fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2024
The main difference is the delightfully over-the-top, campy production that takes the audience into the fertile mind of Mark Morris and his artistic colleagues. The mostly black and white sc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2024
The second premiere was a battle of the sexes duet, "Me, Myself and You," choreographed by Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish to a Duke Ellington song, "In a Sentimental Mood" sung lustrously by Brandi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2024
"Glitter and Be Gay" is not just a Leonard Bernstein aria from Candide, but the perfect description of the campily funny new musical "Death Becomes Her" which just hit the Lunt-Fontanne Thea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
Can the tale of two families living in Palestine just before the partition that created the State of Israel shine a light on the current status of affairs? Playwright Tom Block's "Oud Player…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2024
"Ragtime," thought of as an unwieldy musical with too many characters and too many themes, hit Broadway in 1998. Based on the 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel of the same name, the many storylin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2024
Now, director Jamie Lloyd has taken the clunky"but entertaining"Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Blvd." (1993) and stripped it of all realistic scenery"and a few songs"hoping to get to th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14PM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2024
Donald Steven Olson's "The Christine Jorgensen Show," a two-hander, focuses on the creation of her nightclub act. Jorgensen (portrayed by Jesse James Keitel known for "Younger," "Queer a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
Clearly, Hwang's playwright-within-the-play has been on a colorful journey, full of characters that amuse, anger and move him. Hwang's genius here is his ability to spin his real life in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2024
We've come a long way from "Annie Get Your Gun" to the new musical "Distant Thunder" produced by Amas Musical Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres. Â The Irvin Berlin song "I'm an India…
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